Barbara Hammer

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Known For Directing

Known Credits 99

Gender Female

Birthday May 15, 1939

Day of Death March 16, 2019 (79 years old)

Place of Birth Hollywood, California, USA

Also Known As

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Barbara Hammer

Biography

Barbara Hammer was born on May 15, 1939 in Hollywood, California. She was a visual artist working primarily in film and video. She made over 80 moving image works in a career that spanned 40 years. She is considered a pioneer of queer cinema.

Known For

Directing

2018

… Director

2015		Lesbian Whale … Director
2015		Welcome to This House … Director

2011

… Director

2010

… Director

2009

… Director

2007		Fucking Different New York … Director
2007		Diving Women of Jeju-do … Director

2006

… Director

2003		Our Grief Is Not a Cry for War … Director
2003		Resisting Paradise … Director

2002

… Director

2001

… Director

2000

… Director

1998		The Female Closet … Director
1998		Blue Film No. 6: Love Is Where You Find It … Director

1995		Tender Fictions … Director
1995		Out in South Africa … Director

1993

… Director

1992

… Director

1991

… Director

1990		Dr. Watson's X-Rays … Director
1990		Sanctus … Director

1989

… Director

1988		History of the World According to a Lesbian … Director
1988		T.V. Tart … Director
1988		Two Bad Daughters … Director
1988		Bedtime Stories … Director
1988		Endangered … Director

1987		Place Mattes … Director
1987		No No Nooky T.V. … Director

1986

… Director

1985		Tourist … Director
1985		Would You Like To Meet Your Neighbor? A New York Subway Tape … Director
1985		Optic Nerve … Director
1985		Hot Flash … Director

1984		Doll House … Director
1984		Parisian Blinds … Director

1983		Bent Time … Director
1983		Stone Circles … Director
1983		Bamboo Xerox … Director
1983		See What You Hear What You See … Director

1982		Pond and Waterfall … Director
1982		Audience … Director

1981		Sync Touch … Director
1981		Pools … Director
1981		New York Loft … Director
1981		Our Trip … Director
1981		Pictures 4 Barbara … Director
1981		Arequipa … Director

1979		Available Space … Director
1979		Sappho … Director
1979		Dream Age … Director

1978		Haircut … Director
1978		Double Strength … Director

1977

… Director

1976		Multiple Orgasm … Director
1976		Superdyke Meets Madame X … Director
1976		Stress Scars & Pleasure Wrinkles … Director
1976		Moon Goddess … Director
1976		Women I Love … Director

1975		Psychosynthesis … Director
1975		Jane Brakhage … Director
1975		Superdyke … Director

1974		Women’s Rites or Truth is the Daughter of Time … Director
1974		Sisters! … Director
1974		Dyketactics … Director

1973		“X” … Director
1973		A Gay Day … Director
1973		Yellow Hammer … Director
1973		I Was/I Am … Director
1973		Sisters! … Director
1973		Menses … Director

1970		Marie and Me … Director
1970		Traveling … Director
1970		Play or ‘Yes’, ‘Yes’, ‘Yes’ … Director
1970		Elegy … Director

1969		Death of a Marriage … Director
1969		Aldebaran Sees … Director
1969		Cleansed II … Director

1968		The Baptism … Director
1968		Contribution to Light … Director
1968		Clay I Love You II … Director
1968		White Cassandra … Director
1968		Schizy … Director
1968		Barbara Ward Will Never Die … Director

Acting

2023

as (voice)

2019		A Month of Single Frames as Self
2019		Queer Genius

2018		Beyond the Bolex as Self
2018		Dykes, Camera, Action! as Self
2018		Evidentiary Bodies
2018		Carolee, Barbara and Gunvor

2016

as Self

2015

as Self

2012

2010		!W.A.R.: !Women Art Revolution as Self
2010		Generations

2009

as Self

2007

as Self

2003

as Director

2001

as Self

1998

as Self

1995

1992

as Interviewer / Narrator (voice)

1982

as Self

1981

as Self

1978

1976		Superdyke Meets Madame X
1976		Stress Scars & Pleasure Wrinkles

1974

as Woman Making Love

1973

Camera

2023

… Director of Photography

2019

… Director of Photography

2011

… Director of Photography

2007

… Director of Photography

2006

… Camera Operator

2001

… Camera Operator

2000

… Director of Photography

1998

… Director of Photography

1992

… Director of Photography

1987

… Director of Photography

1981

… Camera Operator

Editing

2011

… Editor

2006

… Editor

2002

… Editor

2001

… Editor

2000

… Editor

1998

… Editor

1992

… Editor

1987

… Editor

Writing

2011

… Writer

2009

… Writer

2006

… Writer

1992

… Writer

1976

… Writer

1974

… Writer

1955

… Writer

Production

2007

… Producer

2006

… Producer

2002

… Producer

2001

… Producer

2000

… Producer

1998

… Producer

1992

… Producer

Sound

1998

… Sound

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Barbara Hammer

Biography

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